Ne'er get thee stitched til Booris be ditched: UK General Election 2019

LOL watching Austin being interviewed right now, what a cornball! He's having his 15 minutes, bless him, a nonentity in a week.

deranged little fule who apparently eschews extremism urges voters to vote for hard-right Britannia Unchained, most right wing Tory party of the postwar era.

'I can't believe i'm voting for the party that just gave me a job as Trade Envoy'.

Honestly, watch his interview with Kay Burley, it's one of the most hilarious acting performances you'll ever see.

(xp) LOL

have they ?! he just said on today they’ve not given him anything

When you’re very concerned about antisemtism

First, no one looked at Ed Miliband and saw a potential prime minister with the strength to stand up to the SNP, let alone deal with an American president or face down Putin. Voters thought he was too left wing, out-of-touch and spent all his time in North London with people who already agreed with him.

He was appointed a Trade Envoy to Israel in July.

too... cosmopolitan?

And let’s not forget this either.

A senior Labour MP named as being involved in a plot to oust Ed Miliband breaks cover today to demand that the party toughens its stance on immigration.

Ian Austin, one of former prime minister Gordon Brown’s closest allies, said senior figures in his party had told him he ‘sounded like the BNP’ when he complained that too many people were coming to Britain.

He said the Labour leadership should embrace tough policies including a ban on benefit payments to new migrants who have paid nothing into the system, fingerprinting at the Calais border, and up-front payments by foreigners for NHS care.

too... cosmopolitan?

he was going on about “patriots” this morning

he’s a nonsense footnote. good riddance to bad rubbish

Dudley North was a very tight marginal (held by 22 in '17). He'd probably literally have handed it to the Tories if he'd stood as an independent.

(xp) He said Jermyn Codliver 'doesn't love this country'.

gtf

just thinking about that vid where he gets angry at a holocaust academic. what a bizarre man.

same energy

BREAKING: Very significant Labour news. Emilie Oldknow, the party's Executive Director for Governance, Membership & Party Services has quit. Source: "She was the brains and the muscle of the whole party operation. That's it for the Labour party."

— Kevin Schofield (@PolhomeEditor) March 13, 2018

might as well give up.. never even heard of her before btw!

Labour Party is gonna be Jermaline Crombit and yer granny on bongos at this rate

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50325059

Labour has promised an "irreversible shift" of power and investment to working people outside the south-east of England, if they win the election.

John McDonnell will pledge £150bn for schools, hospitals and housing on top of existing spending plans to be paid for through borrowing.

The shadow chancellor says he will move Treasury staff out of London to ensure the regions get a fair share of it.

Good.

The McDonnell line is very well timed considering a number of Northern papers are running this today

Regional media at its best - joining forces to fight for our regions and readers @journalism_news @BBCNewsnight @MENnewsdesk @Examiner @ChronicleLive @TheJournalNews @hulllive @TeessideLive @AndyBurnhamGM @nick_forbes @BenHouchen @lisanandy @JakeBerry @JenWilliamsMEN #OneNorth pic.twitter.com/W1FWNAPZHS

— Darren Thwaites (@DarrenThwaites) November 6, 2019

move the bank of england out of london too

move it to glasgow so I can go work there

Take it back to its spiritual home.

Good piece on the purdah:

https://popula.com/2018/07/31/purdah/

Let's hope that Ian Austin will now start a new national front against Corbynism. After all, his politics are much more suited to the EDL (Ex Defenders of Labour).

— Simon Hedges #BeKindOnline (@Orwell_Fan) November 7, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/nov/07/general-election-sajid-javid-and-john-mcdonnell-come-out-fighting-on-economy-live-news?CMP=share_btn_tw&page=with:block-5dc3e6488f0867dcebfd04a2#block-5dc3e6488f0867dcebfd04a2

Paul Johnson advises Labour should get their spending plans down-dow-dow-d-down

I wonder what happened to Oldknow's husband, Jon Ashworth, when the Labour party collapsed last year? Hope he found a job.

Charlie Mullins and Paul Mason going toe to toe on the BBC right now. You don't love to see it.

windmill jolyon against jim testes is today’s alien vs predator reboot

Good quote btw:

Corbyn: “I was not born to rule.. I seek power to share it out”

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) November 6, 2019

Ian Austin, 1 year as a junior minister at DCLG, says he won't vote for Labour.

Wall-to-wall coverage.

Ken Clarke, 9 years as Secretary of State, including as Chancellor, says he won't vote for the Conservatives.

Silence.

Balanced election coverage?

— Diane Abbott (@HackneyAbbott) November 7, 2019

Greening also refusing to endorse Boris. Could be a theme of the election, feeds into the "politically homeless" horseshit

jeroboam kropotkin at it again

These negative endorsements are like gold dust tho.

corbs out batting for free movement today

the latest cunning move in his nefarious secret brexiteer masterplan

60 seat pact between LDs and Greens - might help the latter on the Isle of Wight, not sure where else. Includes Plaid Cymru in several Welsh seats too but I think Ceredigion is the only super marginal between PC and LD so presumably they are both still contesting that.

Another safe blue seat potentially melting

@britainelects
South Cambridgeshire, constituency voting intention:

LDEM: 40% (+21)
CON: 36% (-16)
LAB: 12% (-15)
BREX: 7% (+7)
GRN: 4% (+2)

via
@Survation
04 - 05 Nov

Mr Crumblyn, you have made it impossible for me, a member of the Henry Jackson Society who hired a mobile billboard to campaign against the party, at the party conference, to vote for you.

I wonder whether a Lib Dem / Green pact will encourage Green voters to go Labour instead. idk what the LDs have on transitioning to a sustainable economy, other than the banning of excessive Easter egg packaging.

Lads.

Leon Trotsky born this day 1879. Whatever happened to him ?

— Mike Gapes (@MikeGapes) November 7, 2019

He was killed Mike. Murdered. Assassinated. Good topic for one of your ‘jokes’.

— Michael Rosen (@MichaelRosenYes) November 7, 2019

i wanna be clear on something. we can't allow for there to be a slippage from "some of the ppl given prominence as spokespeople against antisemitism are hypocrites/don't care about other forms of racism" to "Jews are being privileged vs POC"

— michael (@Sisyphusa) November 7, 2019

Background on the poll from March that the Jewish Chronicle refers to (but does not mention directly on that front page for some reason) - 757 participants mostly contacted by telephone
https://www.survation.com/new-polling-of-british-jews-shows-tensions-remain-strong-between-labour-and-the-british-jewish-community/

That's a great post, gyac, thanks.

Sisyphusa is an excellent follow.

The political editor at the JC is a former style mag journo who got his career at the tabloids by snitching on showbiz types for habits he was party to, and was lucky not to have been charged with phone hacking after being arrested for it in 2015. He elides and straight-up lies about antisemitism in Labour, which undermines the efforts of good people on the left who are working to eradicate it and educate people out of it.

I haven't seen the Jewish Chronicle* attitude in real life, but my Jewish friends are either literally in Jewdas, or don't tend to bring up Jeremy Corbyn in conversation, except in passing on how they're miserable about the whole state of politics - they're certainly not "Oh well, guess I have to vote Tory now"

* I initially wrote JC, but I can see that can be a little confusing!

jeebus chrisblyn

The last two days have been excellent for Labour on my football forum, really. I think something might be happening

― imago, Wednesday,

Labour are currently shorter odds than they were for Peterborough btw

750000 puppies are to be thrown over the white cliffs of Dover on Sunday. And this is all Crumblyn's fault.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIufQfYWoAAFqRt?format=jpg

^ Lol

This...not so lol

Yes, tremendously disappointing from the Greens. Parties have every right to stand wherever they want, but don't pretend it's some "remain strategy" when standing in a marginal against a pro-remain left candidate. It's a mix of vanity exercise and arse-covering for Lib Dems. https://t.co/AF53NKXJP1

— James B (@piercepenniless) November 7, 2019

You'd need single glazing to be bothered by OTO if you're living on Arcola Street!

tories in disguise, hemp slippers, carbon offsetting, fuck the UK Green party.